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US inflation ticked up last month as some price pressures remain persistent
Legal Business 12/08/2024Fueled by pricier used cars, hotel rooms and groceries, inflation in the United States moved slightly higher last month in the latest sign that some price pressures remain elevated.Consumer prices rose 2.7% in November from a year earlier, up from a ...
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Trump rebuilds Democrats’ ‘blue wall’ states with red bricks. Especially Pennsylvania
Legal Business 11/04/2024Republicans landed historic victories in Pennsylvania this week, winning the battleground state’s valuable presidential electoral votes, posting a two-seat gain in its U.S. House delegation and sweeping all four statewide offices on the ballot,...
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The Law Office of Erica S. Janton - East Greenwich, RI Divorce Lawyer
Legal Business 07/21/2024Erica S. Janton has extensive experience in complex high asset and high conflict family law matters and uses her experience within the family court arena to individually tailor strategies with each of her clients and provide realistic solution focuse...
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NYC Sperm Donor Parental Rights - Over 35 Years Experience
Legal Business 07/10/2024NYC Sperm Donor Parental Rights - Over 35 Years ExperienceWe provide legal services in the area of Assisted Reproduction Law, also known as Third Party Reproduction, or Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) law. These matters involve matters such as...
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US moves to cut backlog of asylum cases at US-Mexico border
Legal Business 10/08/2021The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal by two state police officers accused of failing to protect a woman from a man who went on a deadly rampage, allowing a civil lawsuit to proceed. Troopers were accused of failing to do enough when Brit...
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Supreme Court hanging up phone, back to in-person arguments
Legal Business 09/08/2021The justices are putting the “court” back in Supreme Court. The high court announced Wednesday that the justices plan to return to their majestic, marble courtroom for arguments beginning in October, more than a year and a half after the ...
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South Africa’s ex-president should be jailed, argues lawyer
Legal Business 03/25/2021Lawyers for a commission investigating corruption in South Africa have asked the country’s highest court to jail former president Jacob Zuma for two years for failing to cooperate with its probe. The commission of inquiry into high-level graft,...
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Courts finds suspect in neo-Nazi trial guilty of 10 killings
Legal Business 07/09/2018A German court on Wednesday found the main defendant in a high-profile neo-Nazi trial guilty over the killing of 10 people - most of them migrants - who were gunned down between 2000 and 2007 in a case that shocked Germany and prompted accusations of...
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Supreme Court addresses question of foreign law in US courts
Legal Business 06/16/2018The Supreme Court says United States federal courts should consider statements from foreign governments about their own laws but do not have to consider them as binding.Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote for a unanimous court that federal courts shoul...
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Arkansas officials ask court to keep voter ID law in place
Legal Business 04/26/2018Arkansas officials asked the state's highest court on Monday to allow them to enforce a voter ID law in the May 22 primary despite a judge blocking the measure and calling it unconstitutional.Secretary of State Mark Martin asked the Arkansas Supreme ...
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Pennsylvania GOP take gerrymandering case to US high court
Legal Business 01/24/2018Pennsylvania's top Republican lawmakers asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to stop an order by the state's highest court in a gerrymandering case brought by Democrats that threw out the boundaries of its 18 congressional districts and ordered t...
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Warrant dropped for professor who spoke Hawaiian in court
Legal Business 01/19/2018A judge dropped an arrest warrant Thursday for a University of Hawaii professor who refused to respond in court to English and spoke Hawaiian instead.Samuel Kaleikoa Kaeo was in court Wednesday facing a trial for charges connected to his participatio...